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Book SynopsisAn obvious hiatus amidst the abundance of Pacific War studies is the story of Indonesia during that period. The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War, edited under the aegis of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, now fills that gap. This state of the art work reflects the different experiences and historiographic traditions of Indonesians, Japanese, and Dutch. The aim is to present the developments in the Indonesian archipelago in as much a rational and dispassionate way as possible, taking into account regional and social variations and interpreting them within the international context of pre- and post-war trends. With due acknowledgement of different perspectives, ambiguities, unresolved issues and conflicting views, it sets out to enhance mutual understanding and academic dialogue.Trade Review"This volume brings together a fascinating collection of scholarly articles and primary sources, complemented by a truly wonderful, eye-opening, and extensive selection of photographs, describing the history of WW II as it was experienced in Indonesia [...] Since the Japanese period has not been much explored in English-language scholarship on Indonesia, this book is a significant contribution for academic audiences and for others interested in learning more about life on the ground in wartime in a colonial world. This work will be very important for library collections and of immediate use to any university that offers courses in Southeast Asian history and/or social or cultural histories of WW II." – S. Maxim, University of California, Berkeley, in Choice Reviews Online (June 2010). "This book marks a return to basic historical studies, juxtaposing an amazing range of critical information about the occupation period in Indonesia. This book will change the image of the Japanese occupation, facilitate the sharing of knowledge among scholarly communities, and stimulate a new generation of research on this problematic period of Indonesian history. While I dream of future work, this book is a welcome addition to any bookshelf and well worth the hefty price." – Mayumi Yamamoto, Waseda University, in Journal of Asian Studies (2010). "The present volume covers this traumatic period in great detail and maintains a long tradition of scholarly research from the present publisher. Whilst it is clearly not aimed at the general public it offers the English-speaking reader an in-depth survey of the subject. It deserves a place in the library of any serious academic institution offering courses relating to Indonesia, the PacificWar or South East Asia more widely." – Peter Wellburn, in Reference Reviews 25/5 (2011).

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Book SynopsisIn May 1940, the Netherlands were overrun by German armed forces. The five-day campaign might seem to be a prime example of Blitzkrieg, which led shortly afterwards to the rapid and unexpected overthrow of France. This book, based on the newest scholarly research, argues that this is too simple a view. Even though the German assault on the Netherlands made use of tanks, aircraft and airborne troops, it was still a classic campaign against a weak opponent in a theater on the margins of Fall Gelb. In many instances, artillery and infantry were the decisive factors and it is debatable whether the bombing of Rotterdam can be seen as a precursor to the aerial terror campaigns against civilian populations that marked the later stages the Second World War. Contributors are H. Amersfoort, H.W. van den Doel, P.H. Kamphuis, P.M.J. de Koster, C.M. Schulten and J.W.M. Schulten.Trade Review"This edited volume is a fascinating read from beginning to end. ... Fully footnoted and benefiting greatly from an annotated bibliography, the source material is in itself a valuable resource enhancing greatly the detailed narrative and analysis found within the main body of the text. The translation is of the highest quality and amply demonstrates the considerable time and effort that this must have taken. The range of photographs is extremely impressive and really helps to illuminate the story not just of the invasion and defense, but also the events leading up to the start of the European war. Especially noteworthy are the thirteen color maps at the book's beginning, which are later reprinted within the main text in monochrome. This is indeed a most commendable military study, one of the best that this reviewer has ever received, and would grace any bookshelf." - Andrew Stewart, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, in: Global War Studies 8 (2) 2011, 98-100 [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5893/19498489.08.02.10]Table of ContentsPreface Colour maps I. Introduction, H. Amersfoort The Netherlands and the war The shock The questions II. The Emergence of the German Threat, H.W. van den Doel The consequences of the First World War Versailles The 1920s: seeking stability Fascism and National Socialism National Socialists in power The German Lebensraum ambitions Conclusion III. Between Hope and Fear: The Netherlands armed forces in the interwar period, C.M. Schulten and P.M.J. de Koster Introduction The legacy of neutrality After the First World War The cupboard is bare - from 1922 to 1933 Turning point Rising tensions The military geography of the Netherlands Strategic policy Winkelman’s operation plan IV. The Gathering Storm: The German armed forces in the interwar period, J.W.M. Schulten Introduction The German rearmament Baptism of fire The German operation plan for the Westfeldzug Plan of attack of the 18th Army The alert V. The Generals’ Duel: Five days of war at the military strategic level, H. Amersfoort and J.W.M. Schulten Düsseldorf, Friday 10 May 1940 The Hague, Friday 10 May 1940 Düsseldorf, Saturday 11 May 1940 The Hague, Saturday 11 May 1940 Düsseldorf, Sunday 12 May 1940 The Hague, Sunday 12 May 1940 Düsseldorf, Monday 13 May 1940 The Hague, Monday 13 May 1940 Düsseldorf, Tuesday 14 May 1940 The Hague, Tuesday 14 May 1940 Rijsoord, Wednesday 15 May 1940 VI. ‘Fall Festung’: A surprise attack on The Hague, C.M. Schulten Introduction Ypenburg, Valkenburg and Ockenburg captured by the Germans The continuing battle for the airfields on 10 May The recapture of Ypenburg The battle for Valkenburg Ockenburg back in Dutch hands Further actions against the airborne troops and the battle at Overschie Concluding remarks VII. Disputed Territory: The battle in the Dutch provinces of Limburg, Noord-Brabant and Zeeland, H.W. van den Doel Introduction Operations against the bridges over the river Maas The battle at Mill Passage through Noord-Brabant Zeeland struggles on The final pocket of resistance eradicated Conclusion VIII. The Field Army Defeated: The battle for the Grebbe Line, H.W. van den Doel Introduction The fall of the IJssel Line The attack on the outposts of the IVth Division General Harberts’ countermeasures The German attack on the main resistance sector Chaos among the military leadership The fall of the Grebbe Line The battle at Scherpenzeel The end Conclusion IX. “Vorwärts denken, vorwärts sehen, vorwärts reiten!”: The battle in the northern provinces, P.H. Kamphuis The territorial defence of the northern Netherlands A morning of battle and a pursuit in vain The collapse of the Wons Position The offensive reconnaissance mission fails Conclusion X. Not a bridge too far: The battle for the Moerdijk bridges, Dordrecht and Rotterdam, H.W. van den Doel The German plans Dutch combat readiness The German airborne landings Consolidation of the German positions Actions by the border battalions and the Kil Group The Light Division takes action Die Panzer arrive on time The battle in Rotterdam The bombing of Rotterdam Conclusion XI. Myth and reality, H. Amersfoort Still coming to terms with the past? Analysing the military operations Pre-war defence policy: does it require re-evaluation? Annex: Table of land forces rank equivalents Annotated bibliography Index Biographical notes Photo acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of soldiers of the Indian Army. The Indian Army comprised British-led Indian units, British officered units of the Indian princely states and the British units attached to the Government of India. Based on the archival materials collected from India and the United Kingdom, Sepoys against the Rising Sun assesses the combat/military/battlefield effectiveness of the Indian Army against the IJA during World War II. The volume is focussed on the tactical innovations and organizational adaptations which enabled the sepoys to overcome the Japanese in the trying terrain of Burma.Table of ContentsContents Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii List of Maps and Tables xiv List of Abbreviations xvi Glossary xx Introduction 1 Maps 10 1 The Indian Army before the Far Eastern War 18 Introduction 18 Recruitment and Expansion of the Indian Army 18 Combat Experience and Modernization of the Indian Army 35 Conclusion 48 2 Fall of Hong Kong: 8 December–26 December 1941 50 Pre-war British Hong Kong 50 The Commonwealth Forces and its Opponent 51 The Battle 59 Conclusion 65 3 Disaster in Malaya: 8 December 1941–31 January 1942 66 Commonwealth and Japanese Forces in Malaya 68 Japanese Advance and Commonwealth Retreat 87 Reasons behind Commonwealth Military Failure 104 Conclusion 120 4 The Siege of Singapore: 4 February–15 February 1942 122 Introduction 122 Organization of the Defence 125 Retreat from the Beaches 133 Assessment 144 Conclusion 150 5 Collapse in Sarawak and Borneo: 16 December 1941–3 April 1942 153 Introduction 153 Defensive Preparations 154 The Invasion 155 Conclusion 159 6 Retreat from Burma: 11 December 1941–20 May 1942 160 Commonwealth Units in Burma and their Japanese Opponent before the Invasion 162 The Long Retreat 170 Assessment 198 Conclusion 207 7 Reorganizing and Retraining the Indian Army: May 1942–February 1944 209 Lessons of Defeat 209 Training Infrastructure in India 215 External Influence 233 Hardware and Transportation 239 Organization for Victory 248 Conclusion 255 8 Jungle War in the Arakan: 1942–1945 256 Introduction 256 Defeat in the Arakan: February 1942–16 October 1942 258 The First Arakan Offfensive 263 Stalemate 276 HA GO Operation 283 Japanese Retreat in Arakan 293 Conclusion 300 9 Imphal and Kohima: March–July 1944 302 Introduction 302 Training, Equipment and Force Structure 302 Japanese Defeat in Imphal and Kohima: March–July 1944 315 Assessment 334 Conclusion 346 10 Endgame in Burma: August 1944–15 August 1945 349 Introduction 349 Combat Efffectiveness of the British and Indian Armies 349 Planning and Deployments of the Commonwealth and Japanese Armies 364 Mandalay-Meiktila and the Race for Rangoon 370 Assessment 381 Conclusion 386 Conclusion 389 Bibliography 401 Subject Index 419 Military Units Index 433

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Book SynopsisSwastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 – including, for example, the impact usually ascribed to the Luftwaffe, German armour and the conduct of the Greek Army Further, Swastika over the Acropolis demonstrates that this last complete strategic victory by Nazi Germany in World War II is set against a British-Dominion campaign mounted as a withdrawal, not an attempt to ‘save’ Greece from invasion and occupation. At the same time, on the German side, the campaign revealed serious and systemic weaknesses in the planning and the conduct of large-scale operations that would play a significant role in the regime’s later defeats.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix List of Maps and Figures ... xi Conventions ... xv Introduction ... 1 PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE 1. Axis Ambitions in Europe and Greece 1933-1940 : ‘Greece is assigned to the mercy of Italy’ ... 17 2. The Italo-Greek War, the Powers and the Balkans : ‘My friend Mussolini is a very sensitive gentleman’ ... 35 3. Albania, the Bulgarian Frontier & Greek Defensive Schemes ... 71 4. The Die is Cast : German and British Planning in Early March 1941 ... 91 5. The Gathering Storm : Mid-March and Early April 1941 ... 115 PART TWO: THE DRAMA UNFOLDS 6. Opening Moves (6-7 April) ... 149 7. The Fall of Northeastern Greece (8-9 April) ... 179 8. New Battle Lines (10-12 April) ... 207 9. The Battle of Vevi (12-13 April) ... 237 10. Pressure on the Passes (14-15 April) ... 271 11. Allied Withdrawal Planning & Operations (15-16 April) ... 301 12. The Battle of Pinios Gorge (17-18 April) ... 329 13. Across the Plains of Thessaly (17-18 April) ... 359 14. The End in Epirus (19-21 April) ... 391 15. Brallos and the Thermopylae Pass (22-24 April) ... 425 16. Corinth and the Peloponnese (25-26 April) ... 457 17. The Final Evacuations (27-28 April) ... 485 PART THREE: EVALUATION 18. The Outcome Explained ... 513 19. Justifications, Vindications and Unnecessary Debates ... 543 20. Marita and Barbarossa ... 569 Epilogue ... 589 Bibliography ... 599

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Book SynopsisIn Belgium’s Dilemma: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940, Jonathan Andrew Epstein presents, for the first time in English, a detailed examination of the formation of Belgian defense policy in the eight years leading up to the crucial World War II Blitzkrieg campaign in Western Europe. Belgium’s decision to renounce military ties with France in 1936 has been widely criticized as a fatal mistake but it was in fact a reasonable response to Belgium’s situation and was not a significant factor in the Allied defeat. Drawing on Belgian documents, Jonathan Andrew Epstein looks at the leaders and issues that shaped the Belgian army of 1940 and demonstrates that while mistakes were made, most of the decisions were sound.Trade ReviewBelgium’s defense policy between the world wars was to protect the country from any conflict involving its powerful neighbors. Epstein describes this goal as reasonable. His well-documented analysis segues smoothly among the domestic, diplomatic, linguistic, and military considerations shaping the strategy. He describes an army that in 1940 fought well against long odds that quickly became hopeless. And he demonstrates failure and incompetence are not always synonymous. Dennis Showalter, Professor of History, Colorado CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements…ix List of Figures…xi Introduction...1 1 Belgium and World War I...12 The Size of the Army Before World War I...13 The Language Issue to World War I...13 Deployment Controversies before World War I...19 The Belgian Army in World War I...22 The German Occupation of Belgium...25 Belgium and the Peace Settlement...31 2 Belgium Looks for Allies...39 3 Belgian Defense Policy to the Great Depression... 51 The Main Actors in Defense Policy ...51 The Reduction of the Belgian Army ...55 Plans for Defense Against a Threatening Germany ...58 General Galet ...61 The Language Issue between 1918 and 1932 ...64 The Depression and the Belgian Military ...67 4 The Devèze Years ...70 The Chasseurs ardennais ...77 The Budget Controversy ...79 Raoul van Overstraeten ...82 Devèze v. Nuyten ...84 Franco-Belgian Stafff Talks ...89 The Motorization of the Cavalry Corps ...93 The Debates over Coverage and Service Time...103 The Reoccupation of the Rhineland...110 5 The 1936 Mixed Commission...122 The Language Issue from the Mixed Commission to the War...152 Other Commissions...162 6 ‘Independence’ and its Origins...165 7 The Belgian Army to May 10, 1940...190 The Development and Assessment of the Belgian Military...191 Fortifijications from 1938 to 1940...194 Defense Against Aircraft...199 The Sudeten Crisis and the Pied de Paix Renforce...200 New Mobilization Plans...208 8 Belgium to May 10, 1940...210 Diplomacy...210 Belgium and the Netherlands...217 Mobilization...220 Belgian Military Intelligence and Alerts...226 9 The ‘Eighteen-Days’ Campaign’...236 Conclusion...264 Bibliography...274 Index...282

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Book SynopsisThe authors in this anthology explore how we are to rethink political and social narratives of the Spanish Civil War at the turn of the twenty-first century. The questions addressed here are based on a solid intellectual conviction of all the contributors to resist facile arguments both on the Right and the Left, concerning the historical and collective memory of the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship in the milieu of post-transition to democracy. Central to a true democratic historical narrative is the commitment to listening to the other experiences and the willingness to rethink our present(s) in light of our past(s). The volume is divided in six parts: I. Institutional Realms of Memory; II. Past Imperfect: Gender Archetypes in Retrospect; III. The Many Languages of Domesticity; IV. Realms of Oblivion: Hunger, Repression, and Violence; V. Strangers to Ourselves: Autobiographical Testimonies; and VI. The Orient Within: Myths of Hispano-Arabic Identity. Contributors are Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Álex Bueno, Fernando Martínez López, Miguel Gómez Oliver, Mary Ann Dellinger, Geoffrey Jensen, Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández, María del Mar Logroño Narbona, M. Cinta Ramblado Minero, Deirdre Finnerty, Victoria L. Enders, Pilar Domínguez Prats, Sofia Rodríguez López, Óscar Rodríguez Barreira, Nerea Aresti, and Miren Llona. Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Contributors ix List of Illustrations xv Introduction: Post-Memory and Historical Agency *Aurora G. Morcillo 1 PART ONE - INSTITUTIONAL REALMS OF MEMORY From Anti-Fascism to Humanism: The Spanish Civil War as a Crisis of Memory *Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez 21 Valle de los Caidos: A Monument to Defy Time and Oblivion *Alex Bueno 51 Political Responsibilities in Franco’s Spain: Recovering the Memory of Economic Repression and Social Control in Andalusia, 1936–45 *Fernando Martinez Lopez and Miguel Gomez Oliver 111 PART TWO - PAST IMPERFECT: GENDER ARCHETYPES IN RETROSPECT The Battle to Defijine Spanish Manhood *Nerea Aresti 147 From Militia Woman to Emakume: Myths Regarding Femininity during the Civil War in the Basque Country *Miren Llona 179 The Republican Mother in Post-Transition Novels of Historical Memory: A Re-Inscription into Spanish Cultural Memory? *Deirdre Finnerty 213 PART THREE - THE MANY LANGUAGES OF DOMESTICITY Embroidering the Nation: The Culture of Sewing and Spanish Ideologies of Domesticity *Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernandez 249 The Mythopoeia of Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria *Mary Ann Dellinger 285 PART FOUR - REALMS OF OBLIVION: HUNGER, REPRESSION, AND VIOLENCE Franco’s Bread: Auxilio Social from Below, 1937–1943 *Oscar Rodriguez Barreira 319 Corpus Delicti: Social Imaginaries of Gendered Violence *Sofia Rodriguez Lopez 359 Locks of Hair/Locks of Shame? Women, Dissidence, and Punishment during Francisco Franco’s Dictatorship *M. Cinta Ramblado Minero 401 PART FIVE - STRANGERS TO OURSELVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONIES Chelo’s War: Late Memories of a Falangist Woman *Victoria L. Enders 437 Memories of War and Exile: Two Autobiographical Narratives of Exiled Women *Pilar Dominguez Prats 467 Contents Contents V PART SIX - THE ORIENT WITHIN: MYTHS OF HISPANO-ARABIC IDENTITY Military Memories, History, and the Myth of Hispano-Arabic Identity in the Spanish Civil War *Geofffrey Jensen 495 “Carmencita” Goes East: Francoist Cultural Discourses about the Middle East *Maria del Mar Logrono Narbona 533 Conclusion: Ricoeur’s Le Pouvoir De Faire Memoire *Aurora G. Morcillo 557 Index 565

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Book SynopsisIn A World At War, 1911-1949, leading and emerging scholars of the cultural history of the two world wars begin to break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the two conflicts, identifying commonalities as well as casting new light on each as part of a broader mission, in honour of Professor John Horne, to expand the boundaries of academic exploration of warfare in the 20th century. Utilizing techniques and approaches developed by cultural historians of the First World War, this volume showcases and explores four crucial themes relating to the socio-cultural attributes and representation of war that cut across both the First and Second World Wars: cultural mobilization, the nature and depiction of combat, the experience of civilians under fire, and the different meanings of victory and defeat. Contributors are: Annette Becker, Robert Dale, Alex Dowdall, Robert Gerwarth, John Horne, Tomás Irish, Heather Jones, Alan Kramer, Edward Madigan, Anthony McElligott, Michael S. Neiberg, John Paul Newman, Catriona Pennell, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Daniel Todman, and Jay Winter. See inside the book.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catriona Pennell and Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses Part 1: Mobilizing Minds 1 Cultural Mobilization: Henry Moore and the Two World Wars  J.M. Winter 2 Petitioning the World: Intellectuals and Cultural Mobilization in the Great War  Tomás Irish 3 ‘German Servicemen See Europe’: Cultural Mobilization of Troops on the Aegean ‘Quiet Front’  Anthony McElligott Part 2: Soldiering: Experience and Representation 4 The Sharp End: Witnessing, Perpetrating, and Suffering Violence in 20th Century Wars  Alan Kramer 5 The Isle of Saints and Soldiers: The Evolving Image of the Irish Combatant, 1914–1918  Heather Jones and Edward Madigan 6 “For What and For Whom Were We Fighting?” Red Army Soldiers, Combat Motivation and Survival Strategies on the Eastern Front in the Second World War  Robert Dale Part 3: Civilians under Fire 7 Against Civilians: Atrocities, Extermination, and Genocide from One World War to the Other, 1942/44–1914  Annette Becker 8 Mobility and Immobility in Civilian Experiences of the First World War: Refugees and Occupied Populations in Europe, 1914–1918  Alex Dowdall 9 Occupation, Memory, and Cultural Demobilization: Paris as Case Study  Michael S. Neiberg Part 4: Victory and Defeat 10 Post-wars and Violence: Europe between 1918 and the Later 1940s  Robert Gerwarth 11 A Croat Iliad? Miroslav Krleža and the Refractions of Victory and Defeat in Central Europe  John Paul Newman 12 “The Worst Disaster”: British Reactions to the Fall of Singapore  Daniel Todman A World at War: 1911–1949: Conclusion  John Horne Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Caforio prize for the best book in armed forces and civil-military relations published between 2015 and 2016 In On Military Memoirs Esmeralda Kleinreesink offers insight into military books: who were their writers and publishers, what were their plots, and what motives did their authors have for writing them. Every Afghanistan war autobiography published in the US, the UK, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands between 2001 and 2010 is compared quantitatively and qualitatively. On Military Memoirs shows that soldier-authors are a special breed; that self-published books still cater to different markets than traditionally published ones; that cultural differences are clearly visible between warrior nations and non-warrior nations; that not every contemporary memoir is a disillusionment story; and that writing is serious business for soldiers wanting to change the world. The book provides an innovative example of how to use interdisciplinary, mixed-method, cross-cultural research to analyse egodocuments.Trade Review“innovative, refreshing, and ground breaking [...] a well-researched book with a convincing theoretical framework and insightful experiences, which can only be recommended to anyone interested in knowing the real life of military personnel.” From the jury report of the Caforio Award, June 2017. “This contribution to the literature on military writing is uniquely relevant and valuable.” Kate Hendricks Thomas, Charleston Southern University. In: Journal of Veterans Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2017), p. 122-126. “In On Military Memoirs Dr. Esmeralda Kleinreesink provides the most extensive study ever published on autobiographical books written by soldiers. The author provides her readers with valuable insight on how soldiers experience their service, mainly in Afghanistan. On Military Memoirs is a book that should be on the shelf of every scholar and officer interested in military studies and be taught at every military academy and program on military studies.” Professor Yagil Levy, The Open University of IsraelTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Glossary List of Figures and Tables PART I: SETTING THE STAGE Chapter 1 Introduction: Who, What and Why Chapter 2 Theory: Egodocuments and the Military Chapter 3 Methodology: Quantitative & Qualitative Methods for Autobiographical Research Chapter 4 Context: The Missions in Afghanistan PART II: RESULTS Chapter 5 Who Writes and Publishes Soldiers’ Stories? Chapter 6 What Do Soldier-Authors Write About? Chapter 7 Why Do Soldier-Authors Write? Chapter 8 Conclusion: Profiling the Soldier-Author Chapter 9 Reflections: Some Personal Notes on How to Proceed Chapter 10 The Fifty-Four Books Appendices References Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to the perception of cultural and economic threats in the late 19th century Atlantic, and includes conceptual threats to the construction of national histories. Focussing on the different ways in which such threats were socially constructed, the articles offer a variety of perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to understand the development and representations of external threats, concentrating on the effect of 'threat communication' for societies and political actors. Contributors are Anna Abalian, Vladimir Belous, Eberhard Crailsheim, María Dolores Elizalde, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Simon C. Kemper, Irena Kozmanová, David Manzano Cosano, Federico Niglia, Derek Kane O’Leary, Alexandr Osipian, Pedro Ponte e Sousa, Theresia Raum, Jean-Noël Sanchez, Marie Schreier, Stephan Steiner, Srikanth Thaliyakkattil, Ionut Untea and Qiong Yu.Trade Review"...this reader could be recommended as a topic-specific introduction to global history. [...] To be sure, the volume is a valuable undertaking for interdisciplinary research, as it brings this very vocabulary and theoretical models into historical research – or to put it in idiosyncratic German: It has a high potential of “Anschlussfähigkeit”. [...] its authors offer new perspectives on how to bring concepts and theories from political science, sociology, and ‘constructivism’ into the study of history. That is the pioneering ambition and the great achievement of this book. It should inspire and stimulate future endeavours and theory-testing." Thomas Kolnberger in: H-Soz-Kult, 10.11.2020, DOI: www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49809. "Der vorliegende Band mit seinen 19 Beiträgen aus 12 Ländern zwischen Spanien und Russland, zwischen Singapur und China, der seit 2016aus einem spanischen Marie-Curie-Projekt der EU zur Kolonialgeschichte der Philippinen hervorgegangen ist, zeichnet sich demgegenüber durch überzeugende Kohärenz aus. Denn er versteht es, den allgemeinen Befund, dass Identität durch Alterität oder durch Othering zustande kommt, im Sinne einer Kulturgeschichte des Politischen als Bedrohung zu konkretisieren und zu operationalisieren. [...] Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren Sammelbänden entwickelt dieser dank seiner gezielten Engführung durch Autoren und Herausgeber insgesamt ein differenziertes Instrumentarium zur Bearbeitung des historischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Problems der Wahrnehmung äußerer Bedrohung." Wolfgang Reinhard in Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 47 (2020) 1, 79-80Table of ContentsContents List of Illustations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde Part 1 Conceptual Approaches  1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research  Eberhard Crailsheim  2 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-Slavism  Vladimir Belous Part 2: Threat Communication  3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire  Theresia Raum  4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama  Marie Schreier  5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia  Simon C. Kemper Part 3: Representation of the Internal/External Other  6 The Enemy Within: ‘Gypsies’ as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century  Stephan Steiner  7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia  Alexandr Osipian  8 The ‘Pale of Settlement’: a Particular Form of Separation of the ‘Own’ and the ‘Alien’ in the Russian Empire  Anna Abalian Part 4: The Creation of Threats in the Old World  9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914  Federico Niglia  10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England  Ionut Untea  11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch ‘Great Assembly’ (1651)  Irena Kozmanová Part 5: Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World  12 Translatio Imperii: the ‘Enmification’ of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898)  Rodrigo Escribano Roca  13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive  Derek Kane O’Leary  14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External Threats  Pedro Ponte e Sousa Part 6: Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World  15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony  Jean-Noël Sanchez  16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th Century  María Dolores Elizalde  17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan  David Manzano Cosano Part 7: Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters  18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty  Srikanth Thaliyakkattil  19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain’s Travel Writings in the 19th Century  Qiong Yu Index

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and extended edition of Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon’s battlefield success and ultimate failure. Napoleon’s development and mastery of the operational art of warfare is revealed as each chapter analyzes one Napoleonic war or major campaign of a war. To achieve this, the essays conform to the common themes of Napoleon’s planning, his command and control, his execution of plans, and the response of his adversaries. Napoleon's sea power and the British response to the French challenge at sea is also investigated. Overall, this volume reflects the finest scholarship and cutting-edge research to be found in Napoleonic military history. Contributors include Jonathan Abel, Robert M. Citino, Phillip R. Cuccia, Huw J. Davies, Mark T. Gerges; John H. Gill; Jordan R. Hayworth, Kenneth G. Johnson, Michael V. Leggiere, Kevin D. McCranie, Alexander Mikaberidze, Frederick C. Schneid, John Severn, Dennis Showalter, Geoffrey Wawro, and John F. Weinzierl. See inside the book.

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Book SynopsisThe history of noncombatant immunity is well established. What is less understood is how militaries have rationalized violating this immunity. This book traces the development of how militaries have rationalized the killing of the innocent from the thirteenth century onward. In the process, this historiography shows how we have arrived at the ascendant convention that assumes militaries should not intentionally kill the innocent. Furthermore, it shows how moral arguments about the permissibility of killing the innocent are largely adaptations to material changes in how wars are fought, whether through technological innovations or changes in institutional structures.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction  1 Introduction  2 Theory of Moral Development  3 Methodology  4 Overview of Chapters PART 1: Killing the Innocent: Three Discursive Traditions from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 1 The Origins of Double Effect: The Scholastic Tradition  1 Recovering the Primitive Christian Tradition  2 Before Double Effect  3 The Rise of Double Effect  4 Killing the Innocent  5 Killing the Innocent after Aquinas  6 Repurposing Double Effect in the Sixteenth Century  7 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scholastics on Siege Warfare  8 English and Scottish Protestants  9 Conclusion 2 Martialists: Soldiers and Tacticians  1 Introduction  2 Early Martialists  3 Seventeenth-Century Martialists  4 Shifts in the Martialist Tradition  5 Conclusion 3 Humanists and Republicans  1 Introduction  2 Machiavelli  3 Erasmus  4 Gentili  5 Grotius  6 Pufendorf  7 Jeremy Taylor  8 George Dawson  9 Christian Wolff  10 Vattel  11 Conclusion PART 2: The Nineteenth Century 4 Killing Noncombatants in the Nineteenth Century  1 Introduction  2 Counting Casualties  3 Noncombatants  4 Sovereignty and Self-Preservation  5 Utilitarianism  6 The Link between Philosophical Utilitarianism and Military Necessity  7 Conclusion 5 Deliberately Targeting Noncombatants  1 Introduction  2 Enduring the Hardships of War: Laying Waste  3 Laying Waste and the Laws of War  4 Starvation and Blockades  5 Sieges  6 Siege and the Laws of War  7 Reprisal, Retaliation, Retorsion  8 Change in Norms  9 The Spatial Dimension of Noncombatant Death  10 Noncombatant Death in the Early Twentieth Century  11 Military Manuals  12 Conclusion PART 3: The Twentieth Century: Aerial Bombing and a Shift in Norms 6 New Possibilities and Problems: Aeronauts, Inventors, and Future-War Fiction on Aerial Bombing  1 Early Experiments  2 Deterrence, Annihilation, or Nonfactor?  3 Future-War Fiction  4 Conclusion 7 Interwar Approaches to Bombing: Two Discursive Traditions  1 Introduction  2 Interwar Period Debates on Aerial Bombing  3 International Liberals: Regulation and Disarmament  4 Bombing Realists  5 Strategic versus Terror Bombing  6 Conclusion 8 The Return to Intention: Post World War I  1 Introduction  2 German Guilt  3 The Laws of Humanity and Intentional Harm  4 The Return of the Scholastics  5 The Rediscovery of Vitoria and Suarez  6 Catholics against Bombing  7 Conclusion 9 Postscript: Intention in the Twenty-First Century  1 Introduction  2 Intention and Folk Psychology  3 Are Intentions Relevant for Twenty-First Century War? Bibliography of Primary Sources 445  Prior to the Sixteenth Century  The Sixteenth Century  The Seventeenth Century  The Eighteenth Century  The Nineteenth Century Index

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Book SynopsisTotal War was the core concept around which military thought revolved during the interwar period. Total War was also a multifaceted, confusing concept that affected both civilian and military life. How did small states conceive of their place in such a destructive war? Did they close their eyes, relying on international law to protect them, or did they seek creative solutions? This book examines how Dutch officers, in the shadow of three great powers, considered their military future, analysing the impact of European military ideas on a small state. This approach offers a new perspective on interwar dealing with assumptions about a new world war.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction 1 Setting the Scene  1 Small States in Interwar Europe  2 Dutch Military Publications  3 The Dutch Daily Press  4 The State of the State  5 Dutch Historiography on the Interwar Years  6 Setup and Structure 2 A Strong, Resilient People: Pieter Willem Scharroo  1 An Engineer Officer in Politics and Sports  2 Scharroo’s Publications: Contours of Total War, 1919–1922  3 Scharroo’s Commitment to Sports and Education, 1914–1922  4 Resilience and Youth in Public Debates, 1919–1921  5 The Roots of Scharroo’s Thinking: People’s Strength (volkskracht)  6 Untiring Perseverance, 1915–1939 3 The Human Factor: Hendrik Cornelis Rouffaer  1 An Unreliable Army?  2 The Floor is Rouffaer’s, 1925  3 The Shock of 1918, the Rich Legacy of 1919–1920  4 From Ideas to Practice: Psychotechnics, 1920–1930  5 The Dutch Classics: Steinmetz and Gunning  6 Morale in Combat Manuals  7 War on the Horizon, 1933–1938 4 League of Nations, Neutrality and Disarmament: Abraham Johannes Maas  1 Unilateral National Disarmament?  2 Maas against Disarmament and for the League of Nations  3 The Voice of the Law, 1925–1927  4 The Voice of the Spirit, 1924–1928  5 Maas’ Riposte, 1929  6 Fighting Disarmament, 1925–1929  7 Public Opinion Counted 5 Economic and Industrial War Preparation: Doe van den Berg  1 Van den Berg Puts Economic War Preparation on the Agenda, 1925  2 Fraternal Support, 1928  3 The First Steps, 1930–1931  4 Renewed Attention in the Press and in Politics, 1934–1935  5 From Theory to Practice, 1936–1938  6 Implementing the New System, 1939–1940 6 The Defence Industry  1 The Dutch Defence Industry  2 Artillerie Inrichtingen  3 Fokker  4 Koolhoven  5 Aviolanda  6 HIH Siderius  7 Nedinsco  8 Signaal and Nedalo  9 Philips  10 DAF  11 Research for the War Effort 7 Gas War: Schelte Schilderman  1 The Gas School  2 Schilderman and Chemical Warfare, 1928  3 Schilderman’s Publicity Offensive, 1931–1937  4 The Science of Combat Gases, 1923–1939  5 Combat Gases and International Law, 1899–1932 8 No Trespassing! Dutch Military Strength as a Guarantee for Peace in Europe: Willem Joost van de Woestijne  1 A Social-Democrat Against Disarmament  2 Social-Democrats and the Defence of the Country, 1928–1936  3 Van de Woestijne Advocates Defence of the Country, 1929–1931  4 The Strategic Vulnerability of Limburg, 1918–1931  5 The Southern Netherlands Raises its Voice, 1932–1934 9 Vulnerability Exposed, 1934: Banse, Baldwin and Von Epp  1 Strategic Vulnerability  2 Ewald Banse  3 Stanley Baldwin  4 Franz von Epp 10 Danger From the Air: Mathieu Gemmeke  1 Gemmeke’s Appeal, 1933–1934  2 Viewpoints on Bombing Civilians in the Netherlands, 1922–1930  3 Johan Zegers: an Innovative Voice from the Luchtvaartafdeling, 1929–1936  4 Air Protection in the Making, 1926–1936  5 Air Protection Takes Shape, 1936–1939  6 Abyssinia, Spain and Poland: Prophets and Practice, 1937–1939 11 On the Verge of War: Michael Rudolph Calmeijer  1 Imminent War?  2 Modern War, 1930–1935  3 Opinion Formation on Modern Mechanized Warfare, 1927–1936  4 Searching Beyond the Obvious  5 Calmeijer Goes to Germany, 1937–1939  6 Liddell Hart in the Netherlands  7 The Use of Parachutists Conclusion  1 From Theory to Practical Application  2 Three Key Themes   2.1 The Totality of War   2.2 The Strategic Assault   2.3 Armed Forces – People – Government Short Biographies Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Hurricane served in every theatre during the Second World War as a fighter, night fighter, ground attack aircraft and even on board ship guarding vital convoys. This book offers first-hand accounts of these gallant pilots form not only a history of the aircraft, but also a tribute to the many friends they lost in combat.

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Book SynopsisA concise history of the Second World War. Table of ContentsOperation 'Husky': Invasion of Sicily • Italy: Invasion and Surrender • Operation 'Cartwheel': War for New Guinea • Island Hopping in the Pacific: Gilbert and Marshall Islands • The Battle for Monte Cassino • D-Day • Battle for Normandy • The V-weapons Campaign • The Marianas: Defence to the Death • Operation 'Bagration' • Breakout: Operation 'Cobra' • The end of Vichy France: Operation 'Dragoon' • The Liberation of Paris • Operation 'Market Garden' • The Recapture of the Philippines • The Battle of the Bulge • Soviet Advance on Germany: Vistula-Oder Operation • Iwo Jima • The Fire-bombing of Tokyo • The Western Advance in Germany: From the Rhine to the Elbe • Okinawa • Liberation of the Camps • Victory in Burma • Battle for Berlin • Victory in Italy • The German Surrender • The Atomic Bombs • The Japanese Surrender.

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Book SynopsisThis is the book that answers the question: Could Germany have won World War Two?

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Book SynopsisThe battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn''t have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, the island was the only obstacle between them and the Japanese mainland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific was in the balance.Their Backs against the Sea fuses fresh interviews, oral histories, and unpublished accounts into a fast-paced narrative of the Battle of Saipan. Combining grunt''s-view grit with big-picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), this is the definitive dramatic story of one of the war''s toughest and most overlooked battles- and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history.

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Book SynopsisThey marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired M16s out of the windows of military vehicles, defending their units in deadly firefights. And they did things that their male counterparts could never do--gather intelligence on the Taliban from the women of Afghanistan. As females they could circumvent Muslim traditions and cultivate relationships with Afghan women who were bound by tradition not to speak with American military men. And their work in local villages helped empower Afghan women, providing them with the education and financial tools necessary to rebuild their nation--and the courage to push back against the insurgency that wanted to destroy it. For the women warriors of the military''s Female Engagement Teams (FET) it was dangerous, courageous, and sometimes heartbreaking work.Beyond the Call follows the groundbreaking journeys of three women as they first fight military brass and culture and then enemy fire and tradition.

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Book SynopsisThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.Enriched by maps and hundreds of photograph

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Book SynopsisFew of the major campaigns of World War II aroused as much controversy as the War in North Africa, 1940-1943. This book opens with seven historiographical essays that evaluate and critically assess the major contributions to the literature on the War in North Africa.Table of ContentsPreface Narrative and Historiographical Survey Historical Background Sources for Research on the War in North Africa The Desert War, 1940-1942 The Axis Powers in North Africa Montgomery, Alam Halfa, and El Alamein Torch: The Landings in French North Africa The Tunisian Campaign Future Research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler''s party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe''s Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced in the Third Reich, What We Knew offers answers to these most important questions. Combining the expertise of Eric A. Johnson, an American historian, and Karl-Heinz Reuband, a German sociologist, What We Knew is the most startling oral history yet of everyday life in theThird Reich.

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Book SynopsisThe Battle for Milne Bay - Japan''s first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely forgotten - hour. Forgotten, until now.In August 1942, Japan''s forces were unstoppable. Having conquered vast swathes of south-east Asia - Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies - and now invading New Guinea, many feared the Empire of the Rising Sun stood poised to knock down Australia''s northern door.But first they needed Port Moresby. In the still of an August night, Japanese marines sailed quietly into Milne Bay, a long, malaria-ridden dead end at the far eastern tip of Papua, to unleash an audacious pincer movement. Unbeknown to them, however, a secret airstrip had been carved out of a coconut plantation by US Engineers, and a garrison of Australian troops had been established, supported by two locally based squadrons of RAAF Kittyhawks, including the men of the famed 75 Squadron. The scene was set for one of the most decisive and vicious battles of the war.For ten days and nights Australia''s soldiers and airmen fought the elite of Japan''s forces along a sodden jungle track, and forced them back step by muddy, bloody step.In Turning Point, bestselling author Michael Veitch brings to life the incredible exploits and tragic sacrifices of these Australian heroes.Trade ReviewVeitch has done a wonderful job . . . a fast-paced and thrilling tale * Daily Telegraph on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *Veitch has done a wonderful job . . . a fast-paced and thrilling tale * Daily Telegraph on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *should be part of Australian military folklore * Adelaide Advertiser on Michael Veitch's 44 Days *should be part of Australian military folklore * Adelaide Advertiser on Michael Veitch's 44 Days *fascinating . . . Veitch brings the story vividly to life * Sydney Morning Herald on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *fascinating . . . Veitch brings the story vividly to life * Sydney Morning Herald on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers - the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan - to fight in the Second World War. The book shows, in a way that has not previously been attempted, how some war aims were constants that were unlikely to be abandoned except as a result of total defeat while others arose and sometimes declined as a result of the fortunes of war. Fresh light is shed on the wartime transition of the United States and the Soviet Union to superpower status, while the author shows that consistency is most evident in Great Britain, content with the international prewar status quo, and Nazi Germany, intent from the first on destroying it and replacing it with a new order in which all liberal and civilised values would be annihilated.Based largely on published sources, including published documentary material, the aim is to ensure accessibility for a range of readers. The level at which it is pitched, the synthesis of a broad range oTrade ReviewIn this thoughtful analysis Rothwell provides a concise summary of the key belligerents' war aims, something that few other monographs have done ! War Aims is a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. An excellent idea! I know of no single-volume study on the topic. -- Dr David Reynolds, Cambridge Carefully thought-out and well-constructed! I am familiar with Dr Rothwell's work, above all his book on war aims during the First World War, and it is this book that inspires confidence for a similar one on the Second World War. -- Professor Roger Louis, University of Texas War Aims id a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. -- Russell A. Hart, Hawai'i Pacific University The Journal of Military History Both books can be read profitably by any and all students and scholars interested in the unfolding of the Second World War. Each author, in short, can take justifiable pride in his work. -- S. P. Mackenzie, University of South Carolina European History Quarterly In this thoughtful analysis Rothwell provides a concise summary of the key belligerents' war aims, something that few other monographs have done ! War Aims is a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. An excellent idea! I know of no single-volume study on the topic. Carefully thought-out and well-constructed! I am familiar with Dr Rothwell's work, above all his book on war aims during the First World War, and it is this book that inspires confidence for a similar one on the Second World War. War Aims id a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. Both books can be read profitably by any and all students and scholars interested in the unfolding of the Second World War. Each author, in short, can take justifiable pride in his work.Table of ContentsMaps; German war aims map; American war aims map; Soviet war aims map; Japanese war aims map; 1. War aims in modern history; 2. Germany and Italy; 3. Britain and France; 4. The United States; 5. The Soviet Union; 6. Japan and the Grand Allies in East Asia; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.Trade ReviewA highly intelligent collection of writings ! While some of the pieces have already been published elsewhere their juxtaposition [!] gives them renewed power and provocativeness. This anthology is a source of information, argument and debate that will sustain readers and students of the subject for years to come. An extremely impressive, wide-ranging and timely reader, and an outstanding resource for teaching and studying the Holocaust. -- Dr Robert Eaglestone, Deputy Director, Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth Century History, Royal Holloway, University of London A truly excellent selection of responses to the Holocaust ! exceptional in its ability to conjoin efforts at historical analysis with broader critical and theoretical issues. -- Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University A highly intelligent collection of writings ! While some of the pieces have already been published elsewhere their juxtaposition [!] gives them renewed power and provocativeness. This anthology is a source of information, argument and debate that will sustain readers and students of the subject for years to come. An extremely impressive, wide-ranging and timely reader, and an outstanding resource for teaching and studying the Holocaust. A truly excellent selection of responses to the Holocaust ! exceptional in its ability to conjoin efforts at historical analysis with broader critical and theoretical issues.Table of ContentsThe Holocaust: Theoretical Readings; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; About this Book; Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg, General Introduction: Theory and the Holocaust; I. Theory and Experience; 1. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved; 2. Jean Amery, Resentments; 3. Charlotte Delbo, Days and Memory; 4. Ruth Kluger, The Camps; II. Historicizing the Holocaust?; 5. Jurgen Habermas, On the Public Use of History; 6. Saul Friedlander, The 'Final Solution': On the Unease in Historical Representation; 7. Dan Diner, Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage; 8. Zygmunt Bauman, The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust; 9. Omer Bartov, The European Imagination in the Age of Total War; 10. Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide; III. Nazi Culture, Fascism, and Antisemitism; 11. Kenneth Burke, The Rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle'; 12. Georges Bataille, The Psychological Structure of Fascism; 13. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Elements of Antisemitism; 14. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Fiction of the Political; 15. Moishe Postone, Anti-Semitism and National Socialism; 16. Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men; IV. Race, Gender, and Genocide; 17. Klaus Theweleit, Floods, Bodies, History 18. Gisela Bock, Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany; 19. Joan Ringelheim, The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust; 20. Pascale Rachel Bos, Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference; V. Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Memory; 21. Cathy Caruth, Trauma and Experience; 22. Dominick LaCapra, Trauma, Absence, Loss; 23. Saul Friedlander, Trauma and Transference; 24. Eric Santner, History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma; 25. Dori Laub, Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening; VI. Questions of Religion, Ethics, and Justice; 26. Arthur A. Cohen, Thinking the Tremendum; 27. Emil L. Fackenheim, To Mend the World; 28. Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Spirit; 29. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem; 30. Giorgio Agamben, What is a Camp?; 31. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Differend; 32. Gillian Rose, New Political Theology: Out of Holocaust and Liberation; VII. Literature and Culture after Auschwitz; 33. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History; 34. Theodor W. Adorno, Cultural Criticism and Society; 35. Theodor W. Adorno, Meditations on Metaphysics; 36. Irving Howe, Writing and the Holocaust; 37. Sigrid Weigel, Non-Philosophical Amazement/Writing in Amazement: Benjamin's Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust; 38. Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster; 39. Jacques Derrida, Schibboleth; 40. Geoffrey Hartman, Language and Culture after the Holocaust; 41. Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi, Representing Auschwitz; VIII. Modes of Narration; 42. Berel Lang, The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse; 43. James E. Young, Writing the Holocaust; 44. Hayden White, The Modernist Event; 45. Michael A. Bernstein, Against Foreshadowing; 46. Lawrence L. Langer, Deep Memory: The Buried Self; 47. Shoshana Felman, The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah; IX. Rethinking Visual Culture; 48. Saul Friedlander, Reflections of Nazism; 49. Jean Baudrillard, Holocaust; 50. Andreas Huyssen, Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth; 51. Gertrud Koch, The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah; 52. Lilliane Weissberg, In Plain Sight; X. Latecomers: Negative Symbiosis, Postmemory, and Countermemory; 53. Henri Raczymov, Memory Shot Through with Holes; 54. Marianne Hirsch, Mourning and Postmemory; 55. Dan Diner, Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz; 56. James E. Young, The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany; XI. Uniqueness, Comparison, and the Politics of Memory; 57. Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust; 58. Yehuda Bauer, What Was the Holocaust?; 59. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic; 60. Mahmood Mamdani, Thinking about Genocide; 61. Lilian Friedberg, Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust; 62. Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life; Index.

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Book SynopsisBased upon original research in archives in Ireland, Great Britain, the United States and Canada, this study opens a new page in the history of wartime propaganda and censorshipTrade ReviewNow, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II. 'Now, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II.' American Historical Review A vital study of propaganda and censorship in the age of mass communications from which historians of several genres will undoutedly profit. -- Mervyn O'Driscoll, University College Cork American Historical Review Now, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II. 'Now, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II.' American Historical Review A vital study of propaganda and censorship in the age of mass communications from which historians of several genres will undoutedly profit.Table of Contents1. Setting the Stage: April 1937-August 1939; 2. In Dublin's Bright City: September 1939-1940; 3. The Hazards of Neutrality: June-December 1940; 4. More Than Ever 'Ourselves Alone': January-June 1940; 5. From 'Operation Barbarossa' to Pearl Harbor: June-December 1941; 6. Here Come the Yanks!: January-December 1942; 7. Now We Have Won the War!: January-December 1942; 8. Turning the Tide: January-December 1943; 9. Eamon Who?: January 1944-April 1945; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis series is intended both to open up new approaches to the history of the Second World War and to re-assess established themes. Covering the civilian as well as the military aspects of the conflict, the series examines how societies waged war between 1939 and 1945, and the effects of war upon them.For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-45 are still remembered simply as `the Emergency''. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chose not to stay out of the war but one of the few able to maintain its non-belligerency as a policy.How much this owed to Britain''s military resolve or to the political skills of Eamon de Valera is a key question which this new book explores. It also examines the tensions Eire''s policy created in its relations with Winston Churchill and with the United States. The author also explores propaganda, censorship and Irish state security and the degree to which it involves secret co-operation with Britain. Disturbing issues are also raised like the IRA''s relationship to Nazi Germany and ambivalent Irish attitudes to the Holocaust.Drawing upon both published and unpublished sources, this book illustrates the war''s impact on people on both sides of the border and shows how it failed to resolve sectarian problems in Northern Ireland while raising higher the barriers of misunderstanding between it and the Irish state across its border.Table of ContentsContents; 1 Britain and the Irish Question: An Overview; 2 The Impact of Eire's Neutrality and its Denial of the "Treaty Ports" to Britain; 3 The Economics of the Wartime Relationship between Britain and Ireland as a Whole; 4 The IRA - the Resumption of "Military" Operations in 1939; 5 Propaganda, Intelligence, Espionage, and the Media; 6 Overall Impact of the War Years on British/Irish Relationships; 7 Bibliographical Essay; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict.Interest in Sweden''s wartime experiences has increased due to its post-war profile as a neutral that both allowed German troops to transit through its territory and also carried on trading with the Nazi regime during the holocaust years. Many misconceptions and false impressions have arisen and persisted as a result of deliberate misinformation and concealment by all sides during that time. Readers of this book will gain a fresh, broad view of the period, personalities and problems from a Swedish orientation.Trade ReviewGives the reader a fresh and authoritative view of wartime Sweden, from the nation's dealings with Nazi Germany to everyday life and social change. More controversially, Gilmour assesses key decisions by the Swedish leadership and tackles post-war questions about Swedish actions in the era of the Holocaust -- Professor Krister Wahlback, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs It is so rare to have a scholar so competent in the source material of Sweden during the Second World War ...no book in English has managed to give such a comprehensive picture. -- Jonas Frykman, Professor of European Ethnology, Lund University Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin (2010) is the first modern book in English to cover just about all major aspects of Sweden during WWII. It should become required reading for all students of 20th century Scandinavian history. -- Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish Military History Commission Gilmour has the ability of bringing together various aspects of history, in particular its political, military and diplomatic dimensions, which makes his book useful also for Swedish-speaking readers. Remarkably, there is at the moment no equivalent introduction available in Swedish. -- Johan Ostling, Department of History, Lund University Unlike Boethius, Gilmour has built an argument from the sources rather than an emotional approach towards Swedish conduct. -- Major Claes Henrikson, Militar Historia Gives the reader a fresh and authoritative view of wartime Sweden, from the nation's dealings with Nazi Germany to everyday life and social change. More controversially, Gilmour assesses key decisions by the Swedish leadership and tackles post-war questions about Swedish actions in the era of the Holocaust It is so rare to have a scholar so competent in the source material of Sweden during the Second World War ...no book in English has managed to give such a comprehensive picture. Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin (2010) is the first modern book in English to cover just about all major aspects of Sweden during WWII. It should become required reading for all students of 20th century Scandinavian history. Gilmour has the ability of bringing together various aspects of history, in particular its political, military and diplomatic dimensions, which makes his book useful also for Swedish-speaking readers. Remarkably, there is at the moment no equivalent introduction available in Swedish. Unlike Boethius, Gilmour has built an argument from the sources rather than an emotional approach towards Swedish conduct.Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: 1 Shades of Neutrality? Political Challenges and Social Changes 1900-1939; 2 Wartime Power and Personalities; 3 Isolation, 1939-1941; 4 Towards the Turning Point, July 1941-July 1943; 5 Eastern Approaches and Western Reproaches: Finland's Continuation War and the Collapse of Germany, June 1941-May 1945; 6 Trading with Germany and the Allies - Blackmail and Brinksmanship; Part Two: 7 Security, Subversion, Spies and Sabotage; 8 The Battle for Sweden's Mind - Propaganda and Censorship; 9 Race, Rejection, Reception, Rescue, and Redemption - Swedish Humanitarian Endeavours; 10 Military Matters; 11 The Front at Home - Beredskapstiden; 12 Looking Back in Anger? The Assault on 'Small-State Realism'; Abbreviations and Glossary; Reference Sources and Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first academic study of the British Army in Northern Ireland. It investigates the complex experiences of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish soldiers alike during the often-controversial Operation Banner 1969-2007. The experiences of these soldiers raise many important and difficult questions on war and policy. When do ''troubles'', riots and insurgency become war? How does a liberal state respond to an internal war within its own borders? How does it decide on its rules of engagement for its armed forces?Featuring key interviews with former soldiers, paramilitaries and Special Branch detectives, amongst other key actors, the authors attempt to answer these questions and enhance our knowledge of conflict resolution by providing a deep analysis of one of the most significant British military operations since the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first academic study of the British Army in Northern Ireland. It investigates the complex experiences of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish soldiers alike during the often-controversial Operation Banner 1969-2007. The experiences of these soldiers raise many important and difficult questions on war and policy. When do ''troubles'', riots and insurgency become war? How does a liberal state respond to an internal war within its own borders? How does it decide on its rules of engagement for its armed forces?Featuring key interviews with former soldiers, paramilitaries and Special Branch detectives, amongst other key actors, the authors attempt to answer these questions and enhance our knowledge of conflict resolution by providing a deep analysis of one of the most significant British military operations since the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisAhmad presents a social history of the war's leading agents the neoconservatives and shows how this ideologically coherent group of determined political agents used the contingency of 9/11 to overwhelm a sceptical foreign policy establishment, military brass and intelligence apparatus, propelling the US into war.Trade Review'This forcefully argued and meticulously researched book turns out to be enormously relevant to the present moment - Let me reiterate the enormous significance and relevance of The Road to Iraq. It is a work of tremendous intellectual diligence and moral seriousness. We are all indebted to Ahmad for undertaking this major contribution to the debate on one of the central events of this century, whose aftershocks continue to unfold daily, to disastrous effect. With the neocons poised to make a comeback, this book serves as a cautionary tale of bracing urgency. It is a must-read guide to the history of the present.' - Danny Postel, Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver, in The Drouth. 'Ahmad, who teaches journalism in the UK and writes for a variety of American and European publications, traces the remarkable history of neoconservatism in minute detail. He demonstrates its consistent role as the voice of cold-war thinking, segueing smoothly from militant anti-Communism of the era of Scoop Jackson (the "Senator from Boeing") to the new opportunities afforded by Islamic fundamentalism since the 1990s.' - James B. Rule, Dissent. 'A superb analysis of how and why a small band of neoconservatives helped push the United States into a disastrous war. Far from being tough-minded patriots, Ahmad reveals them to be deceitful and manipulative self-promoters who remain influential in policy-making circles, despite the enormous cost of their past follies. His analysis is nuanced, his research comprehensive, and the story he tells is profoundly disturbing.' - Stephen Walt, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Black Gold and Red Herrings; 2. Origins and Interests; 3. Ideology and Institutions; 4. Setting the Agenda; 5. Selling the War; Conclusions; Appendix: Mearsheimer and Walt, Redux.

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Book SynopsisOctober 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were determined to avoid nuclear war, but events could easily have spiraled out of control with cataclysmic results.Drawing on an extensive body of research, including primary sources released only in the last few years, this work places the crisis in a broader international and chronological context than previously possible. Discover how America was responsible for causing the conflict and Cuba''s role as an important actor rather than a superpower pawn.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations; Introduction; 1.The United States, the Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1959-61; 2.The Decision to Base Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, Spring-Summer 1962; 3. Discovering the Missile Bases, 14-22 October 1962; 4. Confrontation, 22-5 October 1962; 5. A World Crisis, 22-8 October 1962; 6. Nadir and Resolution, 26-8 October 1962; 7. Aftermath I, November-December 1962; 8. Aftermath II, 1963-70; Conclusion; Appendix 1: List of Persons; Appendix 2: Chronology; Appendix 3: Biographies; Appendix 4: Documents; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their 30s, whose friendship was forged during the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, the result of a government scheme partly designed to prevent the artists being killed.

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Book SynopsisWhat happened next would entail ethno-archaeological investigation, a sensational murder trial with worldwide media coverage – and an astonishing outcome – that led to a profound change in the lives of the Tyua Bush people.

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Book SynopsisA quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937.

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Book SynopsisJohn `Hoppy’ Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. A veteran of forty-eight bombing sorties and an expert pilot in three Bomber Command Squadrons, this is the man who taught Guy Gibson how to fly a Lancaster.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to tell the complete story of Adolf Eichmann’s plan to deceive the last Jews of EuropeTrade ReviewHale takes the reader through the myriad connections which make this story so compelling. This impressive study is a surefire addition to the literature of contemporary Holocaust History and Memory Studies. -- Dr Paul A. LevineHale offers a compelling mix of micro detail, combing the records, piecing together a shattered narrative, alongside a masterful overview of the Holocaust as a whole … Superb and very chastening. -- Martin Davidson

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Book SynopsisCompelling first-hand accounts of the Burma campaign – one of the bloodiest and longest campaigns of the Second World War

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Book SynopsisThe siege of Tobruk was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and deep-water port was of crucial importance to the battle for North Africa, and the key that would unlock the way to Egypt and the Suez Canal. For almost a year the isolated garrison held out against all attempts to take it, and in the process Tobruk assumed a propaganda role that outweighed its great strategic value, becoming a potent symbol of resistance when the war was going badly for the British. Goebbels referred to the garrison as ''rats,'' and they proudly adopted the insult as a title, and became the ''Rats of Tobruk.'' When it finally fell to German tanks on 21 June 1942 with the loss of 25,000 men, Churchill said it was ''one of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war''. William F. Buckingham''s startling account, drawing extensively on official records and first-hand accounts from both sides, is a comprehensive history of this epic struggle, a

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Book SynopsisE.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with the prevailing views of the time. He was a pacifist, which gives his journals an unusual perspective. However, even as a civilian he could not escape the conflict, living in a garrison town threatened by invasion and regular bombing raids. His journals, therefore, record anxious and tragic events, but throughout it all his sense of humour is never diminished. This absorbing collection demonstrates Rudsdale's ability to bring a scene vividly to life and each account highlights the daily pressures that people endured as they valiantly tried to carry on witTrade ReviewCATHERINE PEARSON has a BA in Medieval and Modern History from King's College, London, and an MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She recently completed a PhD at UCL on the history of Britain's museums during the Second World War, which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She lives in Chelmsford. Now deceased, E.J. Rudsdale was born in 1910 in Colchester. He left the Royal Grammar School in 1928 to become Curator's Assistant at Colchester Castle Museum.

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Book SynopsisAt the age of seventeen, Kenneth McAlpine ran away from the Repton school to join Churchill''s new elite special force, the Royal Marine Commandos. As the youngest member of the youngest commando force, after three months he found himself fighting on the beaches of Normandy. In We Died With Our Boots Clean, McAlpine tells his own unique story of World War II and his highly eventful military career. From an unusual encounter with Montgomery and Patton, a concerted attempt to kill a sergeant major and his best friend's arrest for swearing at the Queen of Holland, McAlpine paints a fascinating picture of commando life and the harsh training that prepared soldiers for frontline combat in an elite unit. Full of absorbing anecdotes such as his time in a military prison and a rescue operation at a concentration camp, this book is an essential part of a World War II enthusiast's library.

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